Smaller containers appeal to veggie gardeners who don’t have lots of space Washington Post Container gardening is growing smaller. Suppliers are downsizing this season with easier-to-use trough planters, raised beds, pots or bags. It’s an effective way to produce edibles or blooms in tight spaces. One of the leaders in this less-is-better … Master Gardener [...] Read more »
Building a Garden with Deer Resistant Plants
photo credit: Andrew Stawarz Here is a very nice article around building a garden with deer resistant plants. It is from About.com. The rest of the article is here. Landscapers typically select drought-resistant plants when designing rock gardens. But in regions where deer control is an issue, your rock garden plants should also be deer-resistant. [...] Read more »
Drastic Deer Damage Requires Drastic Deer Reduction – From NY Times
photo credit: stro11er Land managers are aware of the catastrophic impact of super-abundant deer on tree regeneration and the loss of biodiversity in the metropolitan New York region’s herbaceous forest wildflowers. Now another phenomenon, the loss of the woody shrub layer, has reached a critical stage across most of the region (outside the New Jersey [...] Read more »
Plants That Are Deer Resistant – They Repel Deer
photo credit: TANAKA Juuyoh (田中十洋) Here are some excellent websites on the web that go into all the details of deer repellent plants. If you are looking for them, I am sure these sites will guide you nicely. This one is from www.northergardening.com. Here is the page that talks about deer resistant plants. The author [...] Read more »